Dr. SOEURN Visal
Phnom Penh, October 20, 2022 – AMK Microfinance Institution and Puthisastra University held a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing ceremony to link some cooperation such academic cooperation on job skills needs through Internship for ICT students in financial institutions. The signing ceremony was attended by Mr. Sok Kosal, CEO of Information Technology of AMK Microfinance Institution, Prof. Ian Findlay, President and Vice-Chancellor of University of Puthisastra, management team, staff from both partners and students of University of Puthisastra.
AMK MFI is one of Cambodia’s leading MFIs in terms of outreach. AMK MFI has 150 operating branches, and nearly 7,000 agents nationwide. AMK provides a wide variety of products and services including Loans, Deposit, Money Transfer, and Micro Insurance (focus on health and accident), Bills Payment Services, Payroll, Leasing, ATMs, and CDMs, especially the Mobile Banking App which can pay for water, electricity, garbage, top-up phone cards, and pay bills by scanning KHQR, transferring money between other local banks with Bakong and many other services.
The University of Puthisastra is a private university in Phnom Penh which is fully accredited for its Foundation Year course by the Accreditation Committee of Cambodia (ACC). With more than a decade of excellence in health sciences and technology, the University of Puthisastra has trained doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, midwives, technicians, lab technicians, computer scientists and technology entrepreneurs. Currently, the University of Puthisastra has seven faculties related to health sciences and science and technology, including the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Dentistry, the Faculty of Pharmacy, the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, the Faculty of Health Sciences and Biotechnology, the Faculty of Business Entrepreneurship and Technology, and the Faculty of English and Employability.